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While the Kennedys toured China, the People's Republic opened yet another link with the West by lifting the Cultural Revolution's ten-year-old ban on certain books. "In order to criticize the Gang of Four severely and to expose Chiang Ch'ing as a traitor," intoned the front-page story in Peking's People's Daily, "large numbers of Chinese and foreign books have again seen the sunlight of day." Among newly freed works once labeled "bourgeois and therefore counterrevolutionary" are Martin Eden by Jack London, David Copperfield by Charles Dickens, Faust...
...four novels and two poems that had long been banned; five other proscribed works have been announced for future publication. The return to grace of these forbidden works is part of the continuing campaign against the Gang of Four, headed by Mao Tse-tung's widow Chiang Ch'ing. At a Peking literary forum two weeks ago, 20 authors-including some whose works have been newly rehabilitated-attacked the Gang for "wantonly disrupting the creation of literary works...
...counterrevolutionary; once again he confessed abjectly to his sins. After that ordeal he was restored to his post as professor of philosophy at Peking University. Last month Feng fell victim to the campaign against the Gang of Four. His crime: writing a poem in 1974 that favorably compared Chiang Ch'ing with the dictatorial 7th century Empress Wu. The aged philosopher was excoriated as an "adviser" to the Gang who had "swindled the public" and "maliciously abused the proletarian revolutionary forces...
Reports have now reached Hong Kong that Chuang attempted to take his own life in Peking by hanging himself with his belt. The reason: he had come under attack for his association with the Gang of Four, the political radicals headed by Mao Tse-tung's widow, Chiang Ch'ing, who are still being reviled in the Chinese press because they reduced the national economy to "semianarchy" and "rode roughshod over the people, drank their blood and ate their flesh." Soon after the Gang of Four was arrested last year, Chuang, now 36, was kicked...
Last week the Japanese news agency Kyodo reported that another of Chiang Ch'ing's protégés, Yu Hui-yung, a composer who had been Minister of Culture, had succeeded where Chuang had failed. Yu reportedly committed suicide by gulping large amounts of poisonous detergent in a latrine in the Culture Ministry, where he had been forced to work as a janitor...